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[MUST WATCH] A new exposé from Israel’s Channel 12 News and NGO Monitor reveals that a that 25% of Hamas’s funding comes from the UK. The cash flows through British Hamas front groups run by terror operatives — and even via UK government aid funneled straight to Hamas-run ministries in Gaza (in Hebrew with English subtitles)
Anne Herzberg with NGO Monitor writes: It discusses how its proposed humanitarian aid plan “will operate in a challenging, high-risk environment” and “the risks to the success of the programme are moderate, with major risks of actual or perceived diversion of humanitarian aid.”
It stated that the UNICEF program was going to be implemented with the Ministry of Social Development which in Gaza is a Hamas-controlled entity.
In other words, a Hamas-controlled entity was an integral partner in determining how cash assistance provided by the UK government to UNICEF would be distributed in Gaza.
One would have thought that this program would have been stopped (even if temporarily for review) given October 7 and the war, but on 19 March 2024, UNICEF published a piece about the program. It stated that “UNICEF maintained and strengthened the partnership with the MoSD” and that it gets the “beneficiary list from the MoSD”.
One of the main facilitators of Hamas’ October 7 invasion of Israel, massacre, and the subsequent war was the ability of the proscribed terrorist organization to divert billions of dollars in humanitarian aid. For 18 years, leading up to Oct 7, and as the UK Consulate General document shows, governments were well-aware of the risk of aid diversion, but chose to continue allowing the aid spigots to flow with questionable safeguards.
UK funding is also likely going to PFLP-affiliated organizations. But much of its funding is not transparent. We identified more than 95 million pounds of humanitarian support in WB/Gaza as going to “supplier name redacted” on the UK DevTracker website.
Link to the Full Report: Hamas Influences UK Funded Gaza Cash Programme
Additional Commentary on the Tragic Murder of Sarah and Yaron
Blood on their hands: The endgame of a global hate campaign by Andrew Fox’s Substack
Let’s not pretend this is an isolated act of violence. This murder is not random. It is the logical endpoint of eighteen months of relentless, unpunished, institutionalised antisemitic propaganda unleashed across the globe since 7 October 2023.
Holocaust denial has a new cousin: 7 October denial. Prominent voices, academics, journalists, influencers, lined up to smear Israelis, the atrocities they endured, particularly the rapes. To claim it didn’t happen, or worse, that they somehow deserved it. This is no fringe movement; it’s mainstream now.
Every protest chant, every keffiyeh waved in London, New York, Berlin, and Paris, has carried with it a genocidal dream: to wipe Israel off the map. ‘From the river to the sea’ is not a call for peace; it is a call for Jewish extermination. After today, let’s stop pretending it is anything else.
The two Israelis murdered in Washington didn’t die in the desert. They didn’t die in war. They died in the heart of the free world because this genocidal rhetoric has been imported, incubated, and mainstreamed by Western institutions that have lost the moral courage to stand up for the values they supposedly believe in.
What began as propaganda ends in murder. What started with a hashtag ends with a bullet. The people who deny, distort, or defend Hamas’s actions are complicit. The media outlets that whitewash terrorism are complicit. The politicians who say ‘both sides’ after 7 October are complicit. This isn’t about geopolitics anymore. It’s about basic decency. It’s about whether Jewish blood is still considered sacred in the West, or expendable.
Link: Blood on their hands
This is what it means to ‘globalize the intifada’ by Stephen Daisley with The Spectator
Globalize the intifada,” they chanted. This is what that looks like: two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, gunned down as they left the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC. They were attending an event for young Jews in foreign policy, focused on alleviating humanitarian suffering in Gaza.
Yaron and Sarah were not just colleagues but a couple. Yaron had bought an engagement ring, planning to propose in Jerusalem next week. There will be no next week.
Their murder happened in a climate of lies and vilification. Anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. have surged 893 percent over the past decade. Posters of kidnapped children are torn down. Students are harassed by well-funded campaigns on college campuses.
A UN claim—later retracted—that Israel was about to kill 14,000 Palestinian babies was laundered through major news outlets, social media, and even the British Parliament. This grotesque lie was part of an orgy of Jew-hatred, where the anti-colonial left, nationalist right, Muslim supremacists, and anarchists converge.
As institutions indulge this collective madness, elected officials and NGOs misrepresent the realities of asymmetric warfare, turning Jews into bloodthirsty villains in the public imagination. This distorted narrative primes Western audiences to see Jewish lives as expendable.
Yaron and Sarah’s murder wasn’t about geopolitics or resistance. It was about a worldview where Jewish lives are disposable. A moral inversion has taken hold, where the ethics of shooting Jews are debated based on their passports.
For years, pro-Palestinian movements have called to put Palestine at the heart of Western politics, to wage global resistance against Israel. Now, that rhetoric has crossed the ocean. “Globalize the intifada,” they chanted. This is what it looks like.
Welcome to the Global Intifada by Bari Weiss, Nicola Woolcock with The Free Press
Last night, outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., a gunman opened fire and murdered two young people because he thought they were Jews and because they were gathered in a Jewish place for an event hosted by a Jewish organization.
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Those are their names. They met at work—they were staffers at the Israeli embassy—and fell in love. Yaron, 30, had purchased an engagement ring for Sarah, 26, a few days ago. They were meant to fly to Israel this coming Sunday so that she could meet his parents, who live in Jerusalem, before he proposed.
That Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim happened to be at an event about delivering humanitarian relief across the region, including to Palestinians in Gaza, was of no concern to the alleged murderer. He was there to “free Palestine”—the slogan he shouted after he executed them.
According to several witnesses, after the shooting, he reached into a bag, pulled out a keffiyeh and said: “I did this for Gaza.”
It’s a worldview that says that Jews and those who support the Jewish state—wherever they live—are now acceptable targets. It’s a worldview that insists that a beautiful young woman and man in love in our nation’s capital might look like innocents to the uninitiated, when in fact they are monsters deserving of death.
Then, over the weeks and months, the flags turned into chants to “globalize the intifada,” and professional talkers dismissed it as a metaphor and not what it always was: a demand for open season on Jewish people worldwide.
At George Washington University, students projected the words “Glory to our martyrs” and “Free Palestine from the River to the Sea” in giant letters on campus buildings. At Cooper Union in Manhattan, Jewish students had to hide in the library from a mob of their fellow students pounding on the door. At Harvard, more than 30 student groups signed a petition that found a way to blame Jewish victims for their own deaths—saying that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
Venomous, untrue statements about Israel, its supporters, and the war against Hamas in Gaza chipped away at the old taboo against open antisemitism in America. Constant demonization of American Jews and Zionists is how a democratic state and its supporters have been made into targets. It is how the “permission structure” for violence against Jews in America has been erected.
Growing up, learning about Simon of Trent or other medieval blood libels, I wondered how something so unnatural, so deranged, could ever happen. How lies could spread so far, transmogrify into a movement, infect culture so comprehensively, and engender deadly action.
The alleged shooter in Washington last night may have shouted the words “Free Palestine,” but that is not why he murdered Yaron and Sarah. He murdered them because he thought they were Jewish.
It is harder still to believe that we are living in the midst of a widespread resurgence of antisemitism. Not only around the world, but also in our own country, where many of us—and I include myself—believed that although there might be occasional antisemitic incidents, antisemitism would never become a widespread phenomenon. Oh boy, were we wrong.
No police force, not even the best in the world, can hold back a culture that has embraced violence as a means of expression, that has lost hold of the difference between life and death.
Watch as Johnathan Epstein, a witness to the tragic shooting in Washington, D.C., responds to a ridiculous question from CNN.
“What did I see in his eyes? I went to grad school at Columbia and saw the same thing in his eyes as I saw in the eyes of the protestors. They gave permission calling for intifada constantly."
A Dangerous Disguise for Anti-Semitism by Yair Rosenberg in The Atlantic
When Hamas stormed across the Gaza border on October 7, 2023, it knew exactly what it was doing.
As it turned out, the Israeli military was not the primary target of Hamas. It was just in the way of the real target: any and all Jewish people in the land of Israel. The terrorist group’s anti-Zionism turned out to be a flimsy cover for its anti-Semitism.
Last night, another assailant used the Palestinian struggle as a pretext to harm Jews.
His alleged decision to murder guests at an AJC event suggests that what he wanted was simply to hurt Jews.
Like other forms of bigotry, the problem of anti-Jewish prejudice will not be resolved by its targets. Anti-Semitism will not be expunged by the 0.2 percent of the world that is Jewish, but by the 99.8 percent that is not. The FBI and Metropolitan Police Department are investigating the shooting as a potential hate crime. But the larger question today is: Will our society provide excuses and justifications that fuel further anti-Jewish violence, or will it choose to stand against those who use such pretexts to brutalize Jews the way they’ve been brutalized for centuries?
Link: The D.C. Jewish Museum Shooting and a Dangerous Disguise for Anti-Semitism
Another Nihilistic Murder by Charles Fain Lehman in City Journal
The violence reflects both the radicalization of the anti-Israel protest movement and a broader rise in anti-Semitic attacks. More broadly, it is part of a growing wave of nihilistic political violence, justified by extremist ideology and tacitly endorsed by progressives in power.
On campuses across the nation, students have not only peacefully protested but also at times turned to vandalism, rioting, the occupation of buildings, and even violence. In major cities, protesters have shut down bridges and other critical infrastructure in acts of what my Manhattan Institute colleague Tal Fortgang has labeled “civil terrorism.”
by the Israeli government, and many openly support Hamas’s “armed resistance” and its goal of destroying the “Zionist entity.” Some of the most committed radicals see themselves as the Western wing of Hamas—a connection the terrorist group is eager to affirm. In this context, it’s easy to see how individuals like Rodriguez and Balmer resort to terroristic violence.
After all, the thinking goes, “the system” is itself violent—whether that means “Amerikkka” or “the Zionist entity.” Vandalism, property damage, and shutting down buildings are barely proportional to the alleged evils of “the system.” And individual violence is not merely justified in response to this state oppression; it is morally mandatory.
The fact that a Christian was murdered in the name of opposing Israel highlights how, for Rodriguez, anti-Semitism is but one vicious part of a comprehensive anti-Western ideology.
Elias Rodriguez is not a brave freedom fighter; he did not serve justice or righteousness by gunning down two young lovers on the streets of Washington. He is, rather, an anti-civilizational nihilist
A powerful statement from the Manhattan Institute
Israel/Middle East Related Articles
Humanitarian Aid Returns to Gaza—and Hamas by The WSJ Editorial Board
Israel restored the flow of aid to Gaza on Monday with full knowledge that much of it will be stolen by Hamas. Some of the supplies will then be sold back to the people, financing Hamas’s war effort and the patronage that sustains its rule.
Israel facilitated the entry of 25,000 aid trucks during the cease-fire ending March 18. It was confident that Gaza had supplies for five to seven months, but after Hamas pilfered aid, shortages have already become imminent, only three months on.
What was the world to do—pressure Hamas to fork over what it has stolen or pressure Israel to let in more for Hamas to steal? The answer has always been the latter, even though it prolongs the war. Everyone knows Hamas would gladly let Gazans starve to score a win over Israel.
Mr. Biden promised on Oct. 18, 2023, that aid would stop if Hamas stole it, but he never kept his word.
The Journal reported in April, after a month without new aid, “A Depleted Hamas Is So Low on Cash That It Can’t Pay Its Fighters.”
That’s the goal of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S. initiative that Israel hopes to get off the ground within days. Led by Jake Wood, a founder of the Team Rubicon disaster-response group, the foundation will open distribution centers in areas of Gaza with IDF perimeter control rather than send trucks all across vulnerable territory. Private U.S. security contractors will handle the distribution from border crossings to Secure Distribution Sites, and a GHF spokesman says civilian teams will then distribute the aid directly to Gazans.
It should be in everyone’s interest to deny Hamas the aid, but readers won’t be shocked to learn that the United Nations and a complex of human-rights and aid groups have protested bitterly. They—and Hamas—are being sidelined by the new initiative.
Canada, the U.K. and France threatened Israel on Monday with “concrete actions” unless it halts military operations and facilitates more aid, which “must include engaging with the UN.” Hamas officially thanked the trio, knowing well how U.N. methods keep it in business.
The U.N. complaint is that the new aid mechanism won’t initially reach every part of Gaza. Maybe so, but the answer is to help it get started and scale up, not to resign oneself to aiding Hamas’s war effort.
More than 90 aid trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday. Ceasing to supply the terrorists is the least that humanitarians can do toward the goal of peace.
[POLICY ANALYSIS] Disarming Palestinian Factions in Lebanon Means Disarming Hezbollah by Hanin Ghaddar and Ehud Yaari with The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Last week, the Supreme Defense Council in Beirut warned Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions against conducting any activities in Lebanon that might jeopardize the country’s security.
The warning came after a meeting in which council members and President Joseph Aoun decided to seek full disarmament inside Palestinian refugee camps.
Earlier today, following talks between Aoun and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Beirut, the two leaders issued a joint statement declaring an end to “weapons outside the control of the Lebanese state” and pledging that local Palestinian camps would no longer be “safe havens for extremist groups.”
Despite the firm tone of the new warnings from Beirut, however, they are just that—warnings.
So far, officials have not laid out a clear strategy or timeframe for actual disarmament.
Hamas handed over two members wanted by the authorities for last month’s rocket attack but gave no indication it would surrender any of its weapons.
Lebanese forces have not ventured into the camps since then.
Today, the roughly 200,000 inhabitants in these camps include a few thousand members of multiple armed factions with varying political affiliations.
Hamas is particularly prominent in the camps, with 1,500 armed fighters who closely cooperate with members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the local Muslim Brotherhood branch al-Jamaa al-Islamiyah, which has established its own armed outfit, the Fajr (Dawn) Forces.
Other armed factions—such as Fatah al-Intifada and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)—counted on Syria’s Assad regime as a benefactor for years.
Taken together, these armed units represent the remainder of the strong PLO presence established in Lebanon between 1972 and 1982.
Given this history, Lebanese authorities now face a deep-rooted tradition of armed groups controlling Palestinian camps for two generations.
President Aoun and his replacement as LAF commander, Gen. Rudolph Haykal, seem intent on negotiating an orderly handover of weapons and avoiding government raids that could easily devolve into extended armed conflict.
Hezbollah’s new military chiefs Abu Ali Haidar and Haitham al-Tabatabai likely share Iran’s view that disarming Palestinians would embolden Beirut to push for Hezbollah’s complete disarmament as well.
The group may have intended to rely more on Palestinian factions to help assert its domestic and regional agenda during this sensitive period.
Encouraging Palestinian factions to resist disarmament would be widely unpopular in Lebanon and could ultimately drive Hezbollah into the very sort of existential domestic clash it is hoping to avoid.
During his visit to Lebanon this week, Mahmoud Abbas may offer Fatah commanders in the camps alternative positions and generous benefits in exchange for disarming.
Hamas remains the more dangerous faction and certainly will not follow his orders.
Hamas leaders in Lebanon may try to embarrass him and flex their power by visibly using their arms during or after his visit.
The goal of disarming these groups should also be assessed as part of the wider effort to dismantle the historical “Palestinian rejection front” in the Levant—namely, those organizations opposed to any deal with Israel.
In Syria, the new government has been closing down the bases of such groups and temporarily arresting some of their leaders.
In Jordan, authorities are taking firm action against underground armed networks, conducting raids and seizing rockets and drones from local Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood elements.
In fulfilling this commitment, Lebanese officials should formulate one strategy for disarming Palestinian groups and Hezbollah alike.
Knowing the depth of their coordination, Beirut needs to change its mindset of treating these files separately.
The Trump administration should ask Beirut to follow up its latest warnings with a timetable for disarmament, setting clear deadlines for Palestinian groups and Hezbollah to lay down their weapons.
Lebanese authorities will also likely need to conduct limited raids in smaller Palestinian camps to show they are serious about seeing this strategy through.
If Hezbollah still refuses to disarm after receiving these strong messages, then wider confrontation may be necessary.
The price of failing to disarm them would be even higher—namely, another full-fledged war with Israel and perpetual Hezbollah dominance over the country’s coffers and foreign policy.
The LAF is now militarily capable of completing this mission, it just needs sufficient political authorization.
More equipment and logistical assistance would help as well; if Beirut shows more determination, Washington should consider providing both.
The United States and its partners should also make disarmament a precondition for other kinds of assistance to Lebanon, including further financial and reconstruction help from the Gulf states.
Beirut needs to understand that it must either fully implement the ceasefire agreement or face total diplomatic and financial isolation.
Otherwise, the process could take more time than Lebanon can afford.
The ticking clock in this case is the next parliamentary election scheduled for May 2026.
If militias are not disarmed well before then, voters might lose faith in the new state and go back to the devils they know—Hezbollah and its allies.
Link: Disarming Palestinian Factions in Lebanon Means Disarming Hezbollah
Antisemitism
New Government Report Reveals Extensive Muslim Brotherhood Influence in France in the Jewish Onliner
A newly released government-commissioned report paints a detailed and troubling picture of the Muslim Brotherhood’s growing influence in France, warning that the group’s structured Islamist agenda poses a serious challenge to national cohesion and secular values.
The report, based on extensive fieldwork and intelligence gathered through early 2024, reveals how the Brotherhood has methodically embedded itself within French Muslim communities, operating through a secretive core while projecting a public image of integration and moderation
At the heart of this operation is a small, tightly controlled “restricted circle” of militants, estimated at only a few hundred individuals, who govern a broader network of affiliated groups and activists.
…the report documents a clear strategic pivot to Europe, with France serving as a key hub.
The report emphasizes the Brotherhood’s use of a “double discourse” strategy — publicly promoting peaceful coexistence and civic integration while privately pursuing Islamist objectives aimed at reshaping society according to their interpretation of Islamic law.
The report documents how antisemitic rhetoric is not incidental but deeply woven into the group’s worldview, frequently linking Israeli policies to Nazi Germany and justifying violent jihad through associated groups like Hamas
French authorities are urged to improve monitoring of Brotherhood-linked groups while simultaneously supporting moderate Muslim voices who reject extremist ideology.
Policy recommendations include enhancing transparency in religious institutions, investing in civic education, and fostering open dialogue to counter the Brotherhood’s dual messaging strategy.
Link to Full Report (in French, not translated): 202505-Rapport-Freres-Musulmans.pdf
[MUST READ REPORT] Antisemitism in Independent K-12 Schools Post-October 7 by the ADL, along with the release of the annual antisemitic incidents report attached with infographics, statistics, and recent trends
Antisemitism in K-12 schools has become a pressing national concern, with 1,162 antisemitic incidents recorded in 2023 and 860 antisemitic incidents recorded in 2024 in K-12 schools alone, according to recent data from ADL’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents.
Since 2020, incidents at K-12 schools have spiked by an alarming 434%.
Focus group participants recounted their children’s experiences with swastikas and problematic classroom content related to Zionism, Israel, and Jews in school.
Among surveyed independent school parents, 25.2% said their child(ren) had experienced or witnessed antisemitic symbols in school since October 7, 2023.
45.3% of surveyed parents reported that their children had experienced or witnessed some form of antisemitism since October 7, 2023
31.7% said their child(ren) had experienced or witnessed problematic school curricula or classroom content related to Jews or Israel.
The alarming frequency and nature of these experiences point to a pressing need for schools to take urgent action.
Of the parents surveyed who were aware of antisemitism in their children’s school, 34.3% said the school’s response was either somewhat or very inadequate.
A substantial percentage (21.3%) of surveyed independent school parents who said their child(ren) had experienced or witnessed some form of antisemitism or encountered problematic school curricula or content related to Jews or Israel in school since October 7, 2023, had not raised concerns about antisemitism with school leadership or faculty.
In focus groups and open-ended survey responses, parents voiced widespread concern that current non-discrimination programming and DEI frameworks systematically ignore Jewish identity and antisemitism.
During the focus groups, parents described a growing fear that, while legally permitted to enroll in independent schools, Jewish families are being excluded in practice – made to feel like outsiders within institutions they are paying to attend.
A parent from the California focus group echoed a similar struggle: "It's painful to hear these stories. And like truthfully, we were thinking of switching schools. And I'm like, damn it, they're all having the same problem."
Another Californian parent – a respondent to our survey – stated: “We’re leaving the school because they terrorize our children.”
A parent of children in a Missouri-based school explained, “We recently pulled both our kids from [school] after several anti-Semitic incidents went unaddressed.”
Without meaningful change, independent schools risk becoming spaces where Jewish students are technically included but culturally and socially marginalized, eventually leading to their quiet disappearance from these communities.
Since October 7, 2023, there has been a sizable increase in the enrollment of Jewish students in Jewish day schools.
One of the key reasons that families chose to enroll their children in Jewish day school was concerns about antisemitism.
"There was a lot of stuff that happened, and that was the first phase where it was very blatant, shocking antisemitism. The school semi-addressed this. What I think is more important and much more difficult to eradicate is what I see going on now, which is how the antisemitism has leaked into the curriculum in a way that's not immediately obvious."
A parent from the California focus group explained: "A very, you know, a well-trained…history teacher, who's been a friend to the Jewish community, was attempting to teach the kids about Zionism quickly as part of a comparative religions course. And the source that he chose was a video put out by the Turkish Government about what Zionism is, which obviously cast it in a really negative light."
A parent from the California focus group described a moment when "one child who is Israeli... her teacher...came in a classroom one day in English class and declared... ‘all Israelis are killing Gazan children and women.’"
Parents highlighted that without a foundational understanding of Jewish identity, history, and the contemporary forms antisemitism can take, even well-meaning educators may overlook or mishandle manifestations of antisemitism.
“There needs to be faculty training about what antisemitism looks like so that the adults are able to recognize and intervene when it happens.”
Parents emphasized the need for stronger, swifter responsiveness from schools when members of the school community experience antisemitism.
“What families need is an understanding that the school had a clear zero tolerance policy for antisemitism specifically, given its disproportionate number of incidents – not a general universal declaration against hate.”
Parents pointed to a broader lack of education about antisemitism within the school communities, suggesting a real need for more proactive, accessible training for both students, parents and educators.
Several pointed to the idea of independent assessments and public transparency around which schools are doing well at creating inclusive environments for their Jewish and Israeli students - and which are not.
Link: Antisemitism in Independent K-12 Schools Post-October 7
Attacking Jews at Harvard Doesn’t Just Go Unpunished. It Gets Rewarded… by Johanna Berkman in The Free Press
In the year and a half since the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, there have been so many alarming incidents on college campuses aimed at Jews.
A group of Harvard students surrounding another student, an Israeli named Yoav Segev, repeatedly screaming “Shame!” in his face, blocking his path, and forcing him to leave a part of campus that he was entitled to be in just as much as they were.
The two aggressors who were the easiest to identify were not just Harvard students. They were also Harvard employees.
Ibrahim Bharmal was a Harvard Law School student and an editor at the Harvard Law Review. He was also a law-school teaching fellow in a civil procedure class.
Elom Tettey-Tamaklo was a student at Harvard Divinity School. He was also a residential Harvard proctor.
Harvard’s president at the time, Claudine Gay, said nothing publicly about it until three weeks later.
In an email to the Harvard community, Gay said that Harvard police were investigating and that “consistent with our standard practice, once law enforcement’s inquiry is complete, the University will address the incident through its student disciplinary procedures to determine if University policies or codes of conduct have been violated.”
Garber also got uncharacteristically personal in an email to the Harvard community. “As a Jew and as an American, I know very well that there are valid concerns about rising antisemitism. To address it effectively requires understanding, intention, and vigilance. Harvard takes that work seriously. We will continue to fight hate with the urgency it demands.”
“Meaningful discipline” at Harvard “must include permanently expelling the students involved in the October 18 assault.”
Suffolk County assistant district attorney Ursula Knight told the court last fall that there were “additional individuals who had been identified to the Harvard police department. They, of course, were expected to investigate those individuals, but they have essentially refused to do that work.”
“Harvard had no role in determining the pace, sequence, or outcome of court proceedings pertaining to this matter,” a Harvard spokesperson told The Free Press.
A judge ordered Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo, charged with misdemeanor assault and battery, to perform 80 hours of community service and to complete an in-person anger-management class as part of a pretrial diversion program.
Frustrated by the lack of response, Segev’s lawyers sent a letter to Harvard late today, obtained exclusively by The Free Press, accusing it of lying when it stated that, in accordance with its “standard practice,” Bharmal’s and Tettey-Tamaklo’s disciplinary process could only begin once the criminal case was finished.
“Of course, there was never any ‘standard practice’ —it was an effort to delay and obfuscate,” the lawyers wrote.
“I think the biggest issue at Harvard is inconsistent enforcement of rules, and I think the root cause of that is a faculty and staff that are full of ideologues instead of balanced thinkers. The reality is that the faculty, the staff, and the administration are completely broken.”
Segev’s parents were Israeli diplomats stationed in Qatar in 1997 when his mother went into labor.
“Yoav of Arabia,” said the headline in an Israeli newspaper, which heralded him as the first Israeli to be born in Qatar.
Segev saw himself as destined to help bring about peace in the land of eternal war. “Solving the Middle East conflict dominated our dinner table conversations,” he told The Free Press.
“Once people are working together, it’s hard to hate them. And once people have an economic investment in a place, it’s hard to blow it up.”
“The university was failing dramatically,” he said. “I was trying to be a leader because there was a vacuum.”
“You have a powerful voice,” Segev added. “You can stand up to antisemitism or you can amplify hate. That choice is yours.”
Three days after Hamas attacked Israel, Bharmal sent all 160 students in the civil procedure class for which he was a teaching fellow an email that began: “I hope you’re enjoying the long weekend.”
The email included a flyer promoting a “vigil for all civilian lives lost and in solidarity with Palestine.”
In a poem read during an online event called “Lessons from Liberation Theology in Times of Genocide,” Tettey-Tamaklo declared: “At the end of history there shall be no pardon left for you, you brood of vipers, you who siphon the lifeblood of the innocent and intoxicate yourselves with it. You dangerous death doulas who curse God by dishonoring humanity…May your blood be viscous as theirs, and may your faith resemble theirs…Weep for yourselves, for God has closed his ears towards your wicked souls.”
“What action was taken from Harvard when a Jewish student was mobbed on your campus last month?” McClain asked. “Action, not lip service, action, ma’am?”
In response to Harvard’s claim that disciplinary processes couldn’t begin until the criminal case concluded, Segev’s lawyers argued: “Would Harvard really let students in white hoods, who attacked a Black student, roam around campus the next two years freely, in good standing because of some unwritten practice? Or would it have expelled them immediately?”
Segev told The Free Press, “I think the world and America are a better place when Harvard is strong. But Harvard is currently a diseased institution which is filled with ideologues instead of researchers and top-level thinkers who are committed to the pursuit of truth and world-advancing ideas. A symptom of the disease is a pervasive culture of antisemitism. I’m not trying to tear the place down. I’m trying to help fix it.”
Link: Attacking Jews at Harvard Doesn’t Just Go Unpunished. It Gets Rewarded.
The ‘14,000 dead babies’ smear shows how low Israel’s critics will sink by Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator
Yesterday, the United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and made the eye-popping claim. “There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” he said.
Fourteen thousand babies. That is now the new slogan with which Israel’s enemies in the West are trying to enforce its defeat. Fourteen thousand babies. If that doesn’t cause them to lay down their arms, nothing will.
The only problem is that the claim is false. In a moment of great wonderment, it was debunked by none other than the BBC.
This time, they were pointed to a recent report by another UN agency, the catchily-named Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which stated that 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition were expected to occur – expected to occur! – between April 2025 and March 2026 – that’s over a period of a year – amongst children between the ages of four-and-a-half and six years old.
Let’s get this straight. No babies were mentioned in the report. The acute malnutrition was a projection, it hadn’t actually taken place in the real world.
All of this translated to a claim made on the BBC’s flagship programme, and repeated all over the world, that 14,000 babies would die within 48 hours.
This is all part of an overwhelming propaganda campaign that has been launched since Israel resumed the war in Gaza.
Link: The ‘14,000 dead babies’ smear shows how low Israel’s critics will sink
What On Earth Were France, Canada, and the UK Thinking? by Richard Kemp with YNet
Operation Gideon’s Chariots aims to deliver the final blow to Hamas and recent strikes have finished off several senior terrorists.
Ordinary Gazans are increasingly out on the streets demanding that Hamas end the conflict that has brought such disaster on them.
With a masterstroke of ill judgment, Britain, France and Canada reach into murky waters that they do not understand and hold out a hand to pull Hamas back to the surface.
Their joint statement demanding Israel halt its operations in Gaza is nothing less than a call for Israel to surrender: cease operations, withdraw forces, leave Hamas to rebuild and get ready for another October 7.
They call the IDF’s renewed offensive “disproportionate.”
Israel is fighting a defensive war to protect its population from further attacks.
The Allies in the Second World War used overwhelming force to destroy Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
Do Starmer, Macron and Carney believe that was a “disproportionate” way to defend our freedom? Or is it only the Jewish state that can never be allowed to win?
They snidely refer to “the Netanyahu government’s” egregious actions.
Netanyahu is the democratically elected leader of his country and his war policies have the support of the overwhelming majority of Israelis.
Yes, the leaders of the UK, France and Canada have tacked on the token request that Hamas release the hostages.
This has been added as an afterthought to show “balance.”
The statement warns that Israel is at risk of breaching International Humanitarian Law by blocking aid from entering Gaza.
The obligation under the 4th Geneva Convention to allow aid to the enemy civilian population is explicitly exempted if there is a risk that the aid will be diverted to enemy fighting forces.
It is well known that Hamas has been hijacking aid for its own purposes since the war began.
None of these three upstanding countries has seen fit to get behind the new US-Israeli plan to get aid under arrangements designed to prevent its diversion for terrorist purposes.
Of course, no statement by Britain, France or Canada would be complete without the standard litany of delusions about supposedly illegal settlements and a “two-state solution.”
Israeli support for such a thing could only, if ever, follow the total crushing of Hamas with the message that would send to any gangsters contemplating a similar endeavour.
But that outcome is exactly what these three countries oppose.
Starmer, Macron and Carney don’t seem to understand the consequences for their own countries of the survival of Hamas.
They each have their ever-growing jihadist problems.
An Israeli defeat by Hamas — which is what they are advocating — could only inspire and encourage global jihadists.
Most damning of all, this statement has been welcomed by Hamas itself.
This joint statement is not only ill-judged; it is also extremely dangerous.
It strengthens Hamas, it gives them hope at a time when that commodity is ebbing fast.
It could lead to them digging in their heels to inflict even greater bloodshed on Israeli soldiers as well as their own people.
These were serious political leaders, they would have confined their threats against an ally at war to the realms of secret diplomacy.
They must indulge in public virtue signalling.
Appease the Jew hating mobs that paraded the streets of their capitals only last weekend and damn the consequences.
The statement concludes with the dark threat of recognising a Palestinian state.
The leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities.
If Starmer, Macron and Carney actually wanted to make a real contribution to peace in the region, they would have told Hamas to release the hostages and lay down their arms.
That above all is needed to save lives in Gaza and begin the process of rebuilding a decent life for the civilian population.
That would be too much to expect from bewildered leaders who cannot even defend their own borders or protect their own population from ever-increasing threats against them.
Link: Britain, France and Canada’s lifeline to Hamas is a dangerous blunder
Hostage Update (no change)
There are now currently 57 hostages taken on 10/7 currently in captivity in Gaza (there are 58 hostages remaining in total)
Of the 58 hostages still theoretically in Gaza
35 hostages have been confirmed dead and are currently being held in Gaza
Thus, at most, 23 living hostages could still be in Gaza. It has been reported that only 20 are actually alive.
Hamas is now holding the body of 1 IDF soldier who was killed in 2014 (Lt. Hadar Goldin’s body remains held in the Gaza Strip)
20 hostages remain in captivity and have not been declared dead.
4 hostages are Americans: Meet the Four American Hostages Still Held By Hamas: Itay Chen is assumed to have been killed on 10/7, and Gadi Haggai, Judi Weinstein Haggai, and Omer Neutra have been confirmed to have been killed.
On October 7th, a total of 251 Israelis were taken hostage.
During the ceasefire deal in November of 2023, 112 hostages were released.
38 hostages were released in the first phase of the 2025 cease fire agreement (including 5 Thai nationals)
194 hostages in total have been released or rescued
The bodies of 40 hostages have been recovered, including 3 mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.
8 hostages have been heroically rescued by troops alive
Casualties (no change)
1,875 Israelis have been killed including 858 IDF soldiers and police since October 7th
The South: 419 IDF soldiers (+2 since Wednesday) during the ground operation in Gaza have been killed. The toll includes three police officers (two of which were killed in a hostage rescue mission) and two Defense Ministry civilian contractors.
The North: 132 Israelis (84 IDF soldiers) have been killed during the war in Northern Israel
The West Bank: 63 Israelis (27 IDF and Israeli security forces)
Additional Information (according to the IDF):
5,898 (+4 since Wednesday) IDF soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, including at least 880 (no change since Wednesday) who have been severely injured.
2,672 (+4 since Wednesday) IDF soldiers have been injured during ground combat in Gaza, including at least 515 (no change since Wednesday) who have been severely injured.
The Gaza Casualty Count: According to unverified figures from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, 53,901 total deaths have been reported, with a civilian/combatant ratio: 1:1.
[MUST READ] Report: Questionable Counting: Analysing the Death Toll from the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in Gaza by Andrew Fox with The Henry Jackson Society
On October 7th, Ohad Hemo with Channel 12 Israel News – the country’s largest news network, a leading expert on Palestinian and Arab affairs, mentioned an estimate from Hamas: around 80% of those killed in Gaza are members of the organization and their families.”
Read this well documented piece from Tablet published in March of 2024: How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes official details on every civilian and IDF casualty.
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